Vincent Gable’s Blog

August 12, 2008

Aesthetics Matter

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― Vincent Gable on August 12, 2008

.. aesthetics (are) important in UI. If you begin to look at something and want to avert your eyes, the site has failed.

Hank Williams

I highly recommend the book Emotional Design, which makes this point in much more detail. A person’s emotional state has a quantifiable impact on how successful they will be at a task. Aesthetics are still the most direct way to manipulate emotion.

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